CVE-2023-42450
- Source
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-42450
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-42450.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2023-42450
- Aliases
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- BIT-mastodon-2023-42450
- GHSA-hcqf-fw2r-52g4
- Published
- 2023-09-19T15:53:39.685Z
- Modified
- 2026-02-15T08:10:16.142740Z
- Severity
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- 5.4 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- Mastodon Server-Side Request Forgery vulnerability
- Details
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Mastodon is a free, open-source social network server based on ActivityPub. Starting in version 4.2.0-beta1 and prior to version 4.2.0-rc2, by crafting specific input, attackers can inject arbitrary data into HTTP requests issued by Mastodon. This can be used to perform confused deputy attacks if the server configuration includes
ALLOWED_PRIVATE_ADDRESSESto allow access to local exploitable services. Version 4.2.0-rc2 has a patch for the issue. - Database specific
{ "cwe_ids": [ "CWE-113", "CWE-918" ], "cna_assigner": "GitHub_M", "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/42xxx/CVE-2023-42450.json" }- References